OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Luster Bowl with a Ram, and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base” — 56 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:11 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Luster Bowl with a Ram, and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Luster Bowl with a Ram, and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century; modern fillings

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Imitation Luster Bowl, inscribed "Blessing"

Imitation Luster Bowl, inscribed "Blessing"

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781

Drawing

Jacques Dumont, French, 1701 – 1781 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Luster Bowl with a Seated Figure and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Luster Bowl with a Seated Figure and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

Artist not stated in the record · 10th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Oil Lamp

Design for an Oil Lamp

Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with Repeating Persian Inscription Wishing for Good Fortune

Bowl with Repeating Persian Inscription Wishing for Good Fortune

Artist not stated in the record · dated 822 AH/1419–20 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with with abstracted all-over design

Fragmentary base of a bowl with with abstracted all-over design

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

Artist not stated in the record · late 11th–early 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a camel

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a camel

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience

Artist not stated in the record · late 12th–early 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of a rider

Artist not stated in the record · early 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of running rabbit

Fragmentary base of a bowl with image of running rabbit

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

Artist not stated in the record · mid-13th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragmentary base of a bowl

Fragmentary base of a bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 12th-13th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with a Majlis Scene by a Pond, by Abu Zayd al-Kashani

Bowl with a Majlis Scene by a Pond

Abu Zayd al-Kashani · dated 582 AH/1186 CE

Public domainThe Met
Bowl

Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · 18th–mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lobed Bowl

Lobed Bowl

Artist not stated in the record · second half 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Lamp, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Lamp

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), by Georges Seurat

Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)

Georges Seurat · 1887–88

Public domainThe Met
Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ceramic Bowl Inscribed with "'Izz" ("Glory")

Ceramic Bowl Inscribed with "'Izz" ("Glory")

Artist not stated in the record · 12th century

Public domainThe Met
Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique., by Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96

Imposte. Vase et Autel Antique.

Richard de Lalonde, French, active 1780–96 · 1775-1788

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 16 matched · 16 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3176609 matched · 40 examined · 20 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:11 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.